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Why a Classic Education is Far Superior than Any Other Education

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Written by Kayley Kenzie

Thursday, 13 March 2008

One of the most traditional and rigorous curricula is Classic education. Education is considered classical when there is a strong emphasis on learning a classical language such as Latin. Liberal arts' foundation is language.

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It also concentrates heavily on the brilliance of the intellectual and artistic classical heritage. Sophisticated speaking and writing is developed through logic, grammar, and rhetoric. It also calls for demanding training in scientific reasoning and mathematics.

Learning can usually be broken down into two different types: learning to acquire a skill and learning to achieve meaning. Learning to acquire a new skill is knowledge-based, and its end goal is performance. This type of learning is great for those who want to learn how to perform surgery or how to invest in the stock market.

Learning to achieve meaning is a little more difficult to describe, and it is much more than just performance-based. Classic education provides students with the means to develop their intellectual nature. Learning how to reason and think critically are skills that will never age.

It's important to adopt both types of learning, but we must understand the important difference between the two. Someone once said that while knowledge-based learning can help us make bridges and roads, it can't tell us where we want the roads or bridges to lead us.

Learning with meaning is a way to help us decide where we wish to go. It's foolish to simply depend on the road to take us where we want to go if we don't know where we want to go or know how to get there.

For over two thousand years, classic education has been the instrument for conveying meaning from generation to generation. It was the education that was taught to medieval philosophers and to the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.

Precious few students who are only taught knowledge-based learning can keep themselves from becoming obsolete in a constantly changing world. However, students who receive a classic education learn how to reason, a skill that's invaluable for all aspects and changes in life.

Even though this educational method was created over 2,000 years ago, it remains the most pertinent learning model for today. Knowledge-based learning will continue to become outdated as new skills are needed day after day. Learning for meaning will never become that way.

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